Plant Powered Families Review + Giveaway!

Plant-Powered Families: Over 100 Kid-Tested, Whole-Foods Vegan Recipes is geared towards kids and great meals for the complete family. Dreena tackles the whole lot from pleasing picky eaters and stocking a vegan pantry to packing school lunches and coping with difficult social situations. The book also includes nutritionist-approved references for dietary concerns that can ensure a smooth and successful transition for your personal plant-powered family.

Dreena’s fifth cookbook Plant Powered Families is an ideal addition to the gathering after the fabulous Allow them to Eat vegan, Eat drink and be vegan books. 

Chapters include Breakfast which has cereals, pancakes, French toast and omelets, to smoothies and milks, muffins, healthy snacks. Lunches have salads, sandwiches, savory bites, dips and spreads. Salad dressings, sauces and toppers. Dinnertime has soups, stews, pizza, pasta , burgers, casseroles and one dish wonders and a giant chapter on Sweet treats with puddings, cookies, bars, frozen treats, cakes and frostings. And at last plant powered challenges and support chapter with suggestions and plans. There’s also a guide to parties each hosting and attending.

Dreena is making a gift of a duplicate of her book on this post. To enter the giveaway, leave a comment on the post about your favorite vegan family meal, by July 25.  (Open to US and Canada)

The book has 100 amazing recipes including Motsa Dip which tastes like mozzarella!, Cinnamon French Toast, Sneaky chickpea burgers, Sunflower artichoke burgers, Home-Style Gravy, Pumpkin Pie Smoothie, Vanilla Bean Chocolate Chip Cookies (yum!), nicer Krispy squares,  Creamy Fettucine, Apple Pie Chia Pudding, No-Bake Granola Bars, White Bean Guacamole, Chickpea nibbles, Red Lentil Hummus! , teriyaki stir fry, Lentil Sniffle soup, Best Banana bread and more.

I whipped up the Sneaky chickpea burgers inside minutes. Burgers from the book below with a healthy helping of basil. Hubbs has been devouring these as snacks together with his evening tea, while he preps for his weekend hike. 

The cashew ginger sauce was obviously going to be successful because you realize, anything nutty and ginger sauce! I added some bean sprouts and carrots and healthy garnish of pepper flakes to round it off as a meal. 

This book is for healthy vegan comfort food for families with kids. Hence, one can find a number of easy and straightforward on a regular basis recipes which might be kid approved. There are also suggestions for meal planning, batch cooking, packing school lunches. The book doesn’t have adventurous or exotic food or complex recipes. Its an ideal guide for vegan families which might be starting out or an ideal addition for suggestions, easy meals, tackling situations for the experienced. Thanks for writing this glorious book Dreena. A few of those suggestions and suggestions for parties, travel, packed lunched are universally helpful with or without kids :). 

Some recipes from the book..

Gorgeous and filling Sneaky chickpea burger patties below. 

The publishers and Dreena are making a gift of a duplicate of the book to a blog reader. Leave a comment on the post about your favorite vegan family meal, by July 25.  (Open to US and Canada)! Or get your copy of Plant-Powered Families here